What is a Quality Label for Badge Recognition?

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By completing this activity, you will get to know the concept of the Quality Label for Badge Recognition. It will cover the Quality Label's benefits and significance in promoting credibility, quality and trust in using Open Badges for recognition.
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Why should an Organiser apply for the Quality Label?﻿
What are the benefits?
The Quality Label can bring to its recipients an increase in trust, credibility, recognition and visibility by highlighting the quality of their badge-issuing activities both within and beyond their sector. The Quality Label includes the essential data (e.g., name of issuing body, date of issuing, validity, etc.) necessary for different institutions and organisations to recognise it more efficiently across sectors. 
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Moreover, getting the Quality Label and committing to upholding its criteria can motivate an Organiser to offer qualitative content and activities. Earning the Quality Label is in and of itself a learning experience that can help develop and improve skills and competencies related to badge recognition. 
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The benefits of the Quality Label can reflect also on learners and stakeholders: by earning badges issued by a Quality Label holder, learners can showcase the quality of their learning journey, which can facilitate the next steps in their pathway by cooperating with or even endorsing a Quality Label holder, stakeholders can demonstrate their commitment to quality learning and also benefit from an increase in credibility, trust and visibility.
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Why did the Cities of Learning Network decide to develop the Quality Label?
The Cities of Learning Network, as an issuer of the Quality Label, aims to build a more extensive community of badge issuers who are committed to using badges and improving badges’ quality and recognition. 
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Quality Label holders stand out among other badge issuers, and the Quality Label helps to build trust and reputation for badges as a tool for recognition, both for badge earners and stakeholders.
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What is a Quality Label for Open Badge recognition?A process through which Badge issuers can evaluate and improve their badge recognition practices while developing and improving skills and competences related to badge issuing.
A visual sign of quality in badge recognition which communicates a compliance with the quality standard and increases trust and reputation of badge issuer and Open Badges as tool for recognition.
A solution to ensure better recognition quality and understanding how Open Badges are used for recognition across sectors and learning domains.
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Get your badge!Go to the badge task and add your evidence of knowledge and understanding of Quality Label for badge recognition.
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Cities of Learning Network created and manages this activity facilitating the Quality Label for badge recognition implementation.
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Badge earner has essential knowledge and understanding of benefits and reasons of Quality Label for badge recognition. A person is able to communicate benefits and reasons to others.
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To earn this badge, person:
Got familiar with the Quality Label for badge recognition;
Explained benefits and reasons for Quality Label;
If needed, asked further questions to better understand Quality Label.
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Task no.1

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Get to know about the Quality Label for badge recognition and respond to the following questions:
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What benefits does your organisation see in acquiring the Quality Label?
In your view, what are broader reasons for having the Quality Label?
Optional: What questions do you have about the Quality Label?

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Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

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Quality Label for Badge Recognition

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